Bazaar is another distributed version control system (DVCS), similar to git.
Mercurial is another similar DVCS.

As has been mentioned, there are bridges to allow some level of interaction
between an SVN repository and local DVCS. Using these bridges, a user could
check out code from an existing SVN repository, then locally work the code
as if it were in a local git (or bazaar) repository. While working locally,
the git user uses git commands. When it's time to sync work back, the bridge
pushes the local git commits back into the central SVN repository.

For a user wanting to use a DVCS, a bridge is better than nothing, in that
it allows local offline checkins. Several users (Ondrej, Adam, Tom) that I'm
aware of are already using these bridges to interact with Moses and other
projects that have svn backends. But, a bridge is just a bridge. The
shortcomings of SVN that git (or other DVCSes) overcome (such as very cheap,
frequent branching, and better tracking of renamed files) are still present,
because the central repository is still SVN.

Cheers,
Lane


On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Barry Haddow <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Tom
>
> Are you saying that bizarre works with the existing svn repository? Do you
> have a link for bizarre?
>
> regards - Barry
>
> On Thursday 20 January 2011 01:27, Tom Hoar wrote:
> > Git sounds very much like Bizarre, where everything is a branch, you
> > commit offline and push to the trunk branch on the server when you're
> > ready. There's already support for these features without any
> > "transition". If you can work with Bizarre, everything is already set
> > up.
> >
>
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